Marvel Studios’ first show, WandaVision, just released its season finale on Disney+, wrapping up the latest chapter in Wanda Maximoff’s life. Overall, the show was enjoyable, but the format definitely needed some tweaking.
To start with the positives, this show kept up with the current storyline of the MCU. It had references to past movies and brought back old characters like Jimmy Wu and Darcy Lewis. It was nice to see some old faces as well as new characters like Billy, Tommy, and Agatha Harkness.
This show also had some great creative themes. The way that Wanda changed the decades every ‘episode’ was super fun to watch and pick up on references to the different time period’s TV shows. The costume changes were also well done and accurate with the time period.
While this show had some great aspects, the pacing seemed a bit off. The show started out fine, with each episode being an ‘episode’ of WandaVision, but that only lasted the first couple of episodes, and it wasn’t until episode 11 that the villain of the show was introduced.
The finale came up very quickly and there were so many plot points that needed to be wrapped up. There was this scene where the ‘Vision’ that Wanda created gave the real Vision his memory back, and the real Vision flew away, but the show ended and the audience doesn’t know what happened to him.
There was also the new character of Monica Rambeau, whose storyline was unclear and rushed. By the end of the show it was apparent she had superpowers, but it was glossed over how she got them and what they were.
Despite the odd pacing of the show and the finale feeling underwhelming, WandaVision was an enjoyable show and used an irregular storyline of the different decades to get the audience engaged. The show was really creative and it’s exciting to see where Marvel will go next with The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, coming to Disney+ on March 19.